Example sentences of "[pron] is often use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice this latter illustration concentrating on the externals of a still picture and then having selectively to use a ‘ public voice ’ , carried less risk of inadequate work than if the group had gone straight into dramatic playing , a mode which is often used indiscriminately and without any kind of rigour . |
| 2 | Meraklon : Double brushed polypropylene fabric which is often used as supplementary liners . |
| 3 | It will be particularly hard with plastic , which is often used to wrap food but can not , because of the danger of contamination , easily be reused in food containers . |
| 4 | Lifestyle is a term which is often used but very rarely defined . |
| 5 | ‘ Form follows function ’ is a phrase which is often used when discussing organisational structures . |
| 6 | It also enables him to produce a version of ‘ what is being talked about ’ , i.e. the topic of conversation , which is much more comprehensive , and certainly of greater analytic interest , than the single word-or-phrase-type title which is often used in a fairly trivial way to characterise ‘ topic ’ in the study of conversation . |
| 7 | We thereby demonstrate rigorously the results we have obtained more intuitively above , and also illustrate a mathematical technique which is often used in rational expectations models . |
| 8 | Note that the electron volt , which is often used as an energy unit , is equivalent to 8067 cm -1 . |
| 9 | One of the casualties punctured his skin with a syringe previously containing snake venom , which is often used in the treatment of arthritics . |
| 10 | Congress , there 's a very familiar phrase which is often used in the English language , a phrase which many of you may have used yourselves from time to time . |
| 11 | Sequencing two or more objects to decide which came first is a strategy which is often used , although caution is necessary here . |
| 12 | This is a linguistic feature which is often used to introduce a new entity into the text , with subsequent references adopting the definite article the . |
| 13 | A second possibility which is often used in fox farms is the provision of wire-mesh flooring in the runs . |
| 14 | Even on a quiet mid-week summer 's day the beach is fringed with people picnicking or sleeping in their cars , while the lake itself is often used for windsurfing or water-skiing . |
| 15 | The intrusive authorial voice itself is often used to point to the formal conventions of the novel , and thus to prevent a naive confusion of literature with life . |
| 16 | I am glad Tom Regan mentioned this word , because it is often used in the wrong sense , as he implied , simply for anyone whose ideals are rather extreme . |
| 17 | Originally a triple-purpose breed , it is often used as a suckler cow which has excellent fertility and calves easily ( the pelvis is unusually wide ) , with enough milk for her fast-growing , early-maturing calf . |
| 18 | Of course , some or all investment business can be referred to a suitably qualified independent third party ( from whom the practitioner may still receive an introductory commission ) but , while this undoubtedly has merit in certain circumstances , it is often used as a convenient way of avoiding involvement in an area of activity that is regarded as intrusive rather than welcome . |
| 19 | The availability of surplus cash for financing fixed asset investments tends to be limited , since it is often used to meet working capital requirements . |
| 20 | Nowadays , though , it is often used to refer to ideas and practices that treat either sex ‘ unfairly ’ , or even just differently . |
| 21 | White or coloured , it is often used in women 's boots and fashionable outdoor footwear . |
| 22 | Equally it is often used to explain why national leaders are better placed to mobilize collective effort in the national interest such as in the response to the second oil crisis in 1979 . |
| 23 | Notice that we avoid the ( anthropomorphic ) term memory , and the term core store , which presupposes a particular store technology ( although it is often used generically ) ; when we wish to distinguish among several levels of storage on a computer , we will refer to this basic level as main or primary store . |
| 24 | This is a broad , catch-all term which ‘ gatecrashed the literature , thereby avoiding the entrance fee of a definition ’ ( Blackaby , 1979 , p. 2 ) ; the question of definitions is taken up in Chapter 2 but for the moment it is important to note that it is a misleading term for it is often used to describe the relative decline of manufacturing industry rather than industry as a whole which includes primary industries like mining , quarrying and oil and gas production and also includes construction and transport . |
| 25 | Where there is traditional hymnody , it is often used selectively with perhaps only one or two verses of a well-known hymn being repeated several times . |
| 26 | How children sometimes experience learning difficulties because they can not cope with the specialist language of science , as it is often used in books or by teachers . |
| 27 | Because the knot lies flat it is often used in bandaging . |
| 28 | A formal pool often serves a different function from an informal one , for in an appropriate setting it is often used to mirror the garden around it . |
| 29 | Indeed , the pervasive appeal of the term ‘ bottom line ’ ( profit after all deductions ) is such that it is often used as the ultimate test of success in any aspect of society ; in sport , how well the game is played is irrelevant , what matters is the final score — the bottom line is winning or losing . |
| 30 | It is often used to mean only live births . |